Polylith 079: Settled work Right near the middle of A Pattern Language, we come to pattern 156, SETTLED WORK. It describes the need in a person's life, especially as she moves in the s...

The February installment of Polylith arrives with the lunar eclipse. We consider late winter's SETTLED WORK, technology scaled by the human body, and Richard Long's COSMIC VARIETY.

#towardThePolylith #aPatternLanguage #sculpture #holzhausen #slöjd #weaving #art #numerology #appropriateTechnology

Great video of Beth Pearsall using a scythe in the same Country Life story;

"Unlike modern-day mowers and weedeaters, it has no numbing vibrations or sputtering fumes and almost helps her meditate as she swings it over the weeds, she told Country Life."

#SallyRound, 2025 […]

I like the idea of #frugalTech' as described here. Fits in with #heritageSkills, #appropriateTechnology approach from the 1970s, and more recently #solarpunk thinking about future societies. Technology without community is rarely, if ever, an answer.

@meercool.bsky.social is busy testing&developing
readily accessible #appropriatetechnology approaches to cooling areas of the world already dangerously exposed to heat #climateemergency. Great work Ye Tao!
#ArcticRepair2025
@uarctic.bsky.social @climaterepair.bsky.social @oceanvisions.bsky.social

Start-ups working on sustainable innovation.
Off-grid clay fridges, lotus yarn, smart farming tools.

Low-cost, high-impact design: justpaste.it/ikrd-ft

#TechForGood #SustainableDesign #GrassrootsTech #AppropriateTechnology #SocialImpact #LowCostSolutions #Permaculture #OffGrid #SocialEconomy

Solving Desert Water Shortages Using 20,000 Volts YouTube video by Plasma Channel

#permaculture #appropriatetechnology
youtu.be/G2brxBRnRH4?...
This could be the solution for so many areas around the world!
Imagine harvesting water for your gardens with simple solution during a drought! I know here in Kentucky, we have very humid days during the summer, even with no rain!

Appropriate AI would step back when needed, even if that meant for the foreseeable future [6]

#permaculture #regenerativedesign #artificialintelligence #ethicalai #appropriatetechnology #permaculturedesign

‘You basically have free hot water’: how Cyprus became a world leader in solar heating The country, which has more 300 days of sunshine a year, has embraced rooftop systems that harness the sun’s energy

#appropriatetechnology #solar

decades ago Whole Earth Quarterly cover story featured a photo of 1920s? Los Angeles w/ a multitude of roofs with this tech

insane that this is not widespread across the USA

fabrication, installation, maintenance - all good jobs

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Some ill-informed critics of #degrowth see it as a return to the Stone Age. It isn't. Perhaps the best way to think about it is via the notion of #AppropriateTechnology.
However, just out of interest, sitting on Eastbourne's stony beach last week, I had a go at flint chipping. I was able to […]